We can prove that Q from the James Bond films is a time traveller

It's a really bad idea to let Bond have one last cigarette – that's what got Red Grant into trouble in From Russia With Love. Same goes when 007 is caught by Blofeld because Q has hidden a rocket in the last cigarette he's allowed to smoke and Bond uses it to kill a key henchman.

Bond might be locked up on numerous occasions but somehow Q knows they're not going to remove his Rolex wristwatch, even though it's worth a fortune. So he hides a small laser beam in there to help him break free of those chains.

In one of the most blatant examples of Q travelling back to the past to help 007 out-gadget his enemies, Bond is handed a pen with a rocket launcher in it. So when a crazed Fatima forces him at gun point to write down that she was the best lover he's ever had, his words are a little more explosive than she bargained for.

When will they learn? Q once again realises that Bond's Rolex Submariner will be the one thing on his person when he's tied up and dangled over a pool full of man-eating sharks. Hence the spinning bezel that acts as a rotating saw. Lucky they didn't use metal chains, right?

We could cite the Lotus Esprit that also happens to be the perfect vehicle for Bond's underwater activities as a spot of time-bothering but the real gift from the future is the rocket launcher Q has hidden in a ski pole, of all places.

Just when you think Bond's facing Hugo Drax without a weapon, you remember that Q had the foresight to fit him with a wrist dart gun that fires either cyanide-coated or armour-piercing darts. He was only able to keep that space date in the first place because the explosive charge in his Seiko wristwatch had broken him free of being roasted by the shuttle's engine.

Sometimes Q knows that Bond will need a variety of functions so he packs them all into one device. Whistle the first few bars of 'Rule Britannia' and this keychain releases knockout gas, wolf whistle and it explodes. It can also open 90 per cent of the world's locks with its lock pick. You know, just in case.

Bond lose his weapon to an assailant? Were that to happen, it'd probably be handy for it to be a signature gun with a scanner built into the grip that can only be fired by one person.

Who knew that Russian hacker Boris Grishenko (Alan Cumming) would nervously click the Parker Jotter ballpoint pen and arm the C4 grenade inside? Q did, that's why he hid it there, allowing 007 to escape his captors once again.

There are a ton of features hidden within the Ericsson JB988 mobile phone (stun gun, fingerprint transmitter, lock pick) but Q knows that being able to flip it open and remote control his BMW 750iL, including firing its rocket launcher and operating the car's defence mechanisms, is the key feature for Bond.

Q branch weren't onscreen when Daniel Craig stripped back Bond and cut out many of the gadgets the franchise had become known for. But they were still working in the background to add a defibrillator to 007's car so his heart could be restarted after he was poisoned. How specific is that?!

Even though gadgets are often proved to save Bond's life, they rarely become standard issue. Funny that. The palm-print reader on 007's Walther PPK/S 9mm, which only allows him to fire the gun, is a rare example of tech from Licence to Kill being reused.